Mathematics class of 300 dirhams

Winter vacation revives the market for private lessons "remotely"

Communicating information to students needs specific skills.

Emirates today

The winter vacation increased the demand for private lessons, remotely, and revived the share prices, after witnessing a remarkable decline during the first period of the spread of "Covid-19".

According to students' families, the price of the Arabic language class, which takes between one and three hours a day, ranged between 100 and 200 dirhams.

Fathers of students said that they had to pay 300 dirhams to teach subjects such as: mathematics and English, explaining that they had to search for teachers who would provide private lessons during the winter vacation to improve their children's academic levels, after they noticed a decline as a result of their experience of distance education, for the first time in their careers. Educational.

They pointed out that they had to resort to teachers of private lessons, remotely, in order to ensure the safety of their children from infection, in the event that they received their teachers at home.

The Ministry of Education issued a decision prohibiting all forms of remedial classes, which are offered to male and female students in direct meeting, and decided to impose a fine on the teacher of 10,000 dirhams, and each student 5,000 dirhams, with the exception of lessons that are offered remotely.

Maryam Muhammad Alwan, from Fujairah, said, "Distance education imposes on the mother the responsibility of teaching, but many mothers are unable to communicate information to their children, especially those in the early stages, because this requires certain skills."

She pointed out that «the competition between private lessons teachers, during the winter vacation, was great, especially as this comes under the laws that prohibit giving lessons directly to limit the spread of the Corona virus, and it also comes after they completely stop this activity.

However, the prices were not low, but rather the direct education share prices were close.

She explained that "teachers devise ways to attract parents, to gain their confidence in their ability to give lessons information completely remotely, and this may include the use of educational programs based on play."

Citizen Muhammad Al-Dhanhani said, "The use of a private tutor has become an urgent matter with the change in the teaching style." With the help of a professional teacher, it is essential.

He added that he "had to contact the teacher who was giving his children private lessons during the past years, to ask him if he could give his son a private lesson through the (Zoom) program."

Ahmed Abdullah stated that he sought help from teachers who promoted themselves through social media programs, announcing their ability to give private lessons through the "Zoom" program, in exchange for 200 dirhams for the Arabic language and 300 dirhams for an hour of mathematics, stressing that he noticed a significant improvement in his son's reading in Arabic. And his academic performance in general.

Citizen Waad Al Hammadi said that her daughter is studying in a private school in the Emirate of Fujairah, and she obtained weak grades in Arabic and English, which prompted her to seek the help of an Arabic language teacher and another for English, to give her private lessons remotely, in order to strengthen her studies.

She indicated that the value of the private lesson varied from one teacher to another, some of them demand 100 dirhams, and some of them 200 dirhams, but the need for parents to improve their children's level invites them to accept these prices ... despite their high.

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